First exploration of the significance of international trade for the environment.

This text examines the vital connections between trade, environment and development. It argues that current international trade rules and institutions must be significantly reformed to address environmental concerns while still promoting economic growth and development.

In this first book to systematically compare how each of the world's major international trade organizations have handled environmental issues, leading specialists provide a balanced analysis of the development of trade and the environment rules in the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the International Organization for Standardization, and other key organizations. Deftly combining policy and theory, the authors offer a range of heuristics and normative orientations in an effort to understand one of the globe's most contentious and timely dilemmas. Visit our website for sample chapters!

A report to EPA from the Trade and Environment Committee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology.

A report to the EPA from the Trade and Environment Committee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology on issues related to the co-existence of environmental policy and trade policy objectives. Supporting papers include: trade, environment, and the pursuit of sustainable development; changing GATT rules; dispute resolution and transparency; the Danish Bottles Case; reconciling trade and environment; the Montreal Protocol Case; marrying international law and American environmental law; trade and the environment: press clips; and more.

Greening of World Trade: Report to EPA from the Trade and Environment Committee of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology

A comprehensive, critical analysis of the interactions between investment, trade and the environment. It examines the consequences of existing multilateral investment and trade regimes, including the WTO and the MAI for the environment, and asks how they should be reformed to protect it. In doing so, the text shows how these regimes can be greened without erecting protectionist barriers to trade that frustrate the development aspirations of poorer countries. The solution seeks to offer a way out of one of the most difficult dilemmas in international policy: how investment and trade can protect the environment without encouraging protectionism by the industrialized world.